Buddhism & Hinduism

I am half Hindu and half Buddhist, but I never really understood any of the religions until I paid close attention to it. Buddha was himself a philosopher, now people say so Buddhism is just a philosophy? That's what sort of makes me angry because the word philosophy comes from two words phile, which means "love" and sophia which means "wisdom". So philosophy is the love of wisdom or love and wisdom, both meanings describing Buddhism perfectly. Buddhism teachers that we should try to develop our intellectual ability to the fullest so that we can understand clearly. It also teaches us to develop love and kindness so that we can be like a true friend to all beings. So buddhism is a philosophy but not just a philosophy. It is the supreme philosopy. Anyways so that's that so then after learning a lot about Buddhism i decided to do some research on my other half Hinduism.
Whenever I asked my mom, she would just say "oh just ask your grand mother, it's a very old religion". So now let me make this clear Indian didn't even come up with the word "Hindu". Before proceeding further, let us get the meaning of the word ‘Hindu’ and the term ‘Hinduism’ clarified. We the (east) Indians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans from the Indian subcontinent know that the subcontinent’s original name was Jambudweep and also Bharatvarsha or simply Bharat. The inhabitants of Bharat are Bharatiya.Thousands of years ago, the outsiders gave our ancestors the name Hindu. They called the subcontinent Hindustan (place of Hindus) and also Indo or India. For them, the faiths and practices of the ‘Hindus’ was Hinduism.

Thus the word ‘Hindu’ or ‘Hinduism’ is not a word originated in India. What the outsiders call ‘Hinduism’ is ‘Sanatan’ Dharma to us, as explained by Hindu pundits. ‘Dharma’ word has no equivalent in English or any non-Indian language. Similarly, the word ‘Religion’ has no equivalent in our Sanskrit based languages. The meaning of the word ‘Dharma’ has been accepted as ‘Religion’ and vice versa for mere convenience.

However, I personally do not believe in God or for that matter any institutionalized religion and hence would not like to delve into that area here, but at the same time would like to leave a question into the believers mind, that if you are not able to find answer to any riddles or mystery of life and nature, try to find rationale answer by acquiring more knowledge available on the subject, or from a knowledgeable person rather than leaving it to the hands of God, fate, destiny, karma or religious rites and rituals, dictats of the religious priests and pundits and so on so forth.